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Utilization of Marketing Resources – SILVER: Suellen Roth, Vice President, Global Policy, Compliance, Diversity & Avaya University, Avaya

As vice president of global policy, compliance, diversity and Avaya University for Avaya, Suellen Roth has engaged the company’s learners with Madison Avenue savoir-faire. “Companies don’t release products without advertising them, so why should CLOs release learning programs without promoting their value?” she asked. “If CLOs want to create a learning program that is going…
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Dec 20, 2005
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Utilization of Marketing Resources – GOLD: Maureen McCormick, Director, Learning & Development, University of Iowa

The idea of using marketing techniques to create interest in learning and development activities is not a new one. However, effectively deploying marketing resources to increase learning and development dollars and then stretching those dollars into more opportunities to serve the University of Iowa’s population of 42,000 faculty, staff and students, not to mention thousands…
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Dec 20, 2005
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Strategic Alignment – BRONZE: Donald Vanthournout, Associate Partner, HR, Accenture

Accenture understands better than most how important strategic alignment can be to the realization of key business objectives. With this central purpose in mind, the company created a Capability Development organization, led by Donald Vanthounout, associate partner, HR, where learning builds the critical people skills that enable organic growth of the business and facilitate execution…
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Dec 20, 2005
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Learning Innovations – SILVER: Ted Hoff, Vice President, Learning, IBM

When IBM Vice President of Learning Ted Hoff joined the company four years ago and began to actively leverage work on IBM’s On Demand Learning capabilities, one of his first stops was the sales department. To strengthen sales and ensure that there was an expansive role for sales learning at IBM, Hoff worked closely with…
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Dec 20, 2005
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Leading Business Change – SILVER: Michael E. Pollard, Chief Learning Officer, Regions Financial Corp.

When Regions Financial Corp. acquired Union Planters in early 2004, the new company faced post-merger integration challenges, but CLO Michael Pollard understood that he and his team would play a vital role in successfully reinventing the company and ensuring that the most critical workers performed at the highest possible levels. Pollard developed the merger learning…
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Dec 20, 2005
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Achieving Impact – BRONZE: Nicholas Mantia, Senior Vice President & CLO, HomeBanc Mortgage Corp.

Learning and development programs have the potential to significantly impact organizational performance. HomeBanc Mortgage Corp., which operates in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, is a case in point. CLO and Senior Vice President Nicholas Mantia helped establish the Professional Sales Development Curriculum (PSD), a nine-week, 10- to 12-hour-a-day class for new HomeBanc loan officers. The…
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Dec 19, 2005
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Achieving Impact – GOLD: Rob Lauber, Executive Director, Learning Services, Cingular Wireless

Mergers and acquisitions are challenging under most circumstances, but when more than 46 million customers, over 100,000 employees and a 20-day transition period are a part of the mix, an aggressive and structured plan is in order. After Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T Wireless in 2004, Rob Lauber, executive director of learning services, and his skilled…
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Dec 19, 2005
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Editor’s Letter – Saluting the Best

Have you ever seen a general cry? Well, I haven’t either, but I’ve seen one give a heartfelt speech, relinquishing a crown he wore proudly to a worthy successor. And while his kind words might not have filled all eyes in the audience with tears, he c
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Dec 19, 2005
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Talent in China: Developing Professionals to Fill Growing Demand

Despite a population of 1.3 billion, a growing number of global companies are experiencing significant challenges attracting and retaining talent in mainland China. Leading companies respond to this challenge by providing their people with extensive learn
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Nov 30, 2005
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An Engaged Workforce Starts With Engaged Learners

Can enterprise learning help create more engaged workers? Many companies hope so, because the news lately has not been encouraging. In the most recent Gallup Q12 survey, for example, 73 percent of workers described themselves as disengaged or actively dis
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Nov 30, 2005
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